I am attempting to locate research for a biomedical ethics paper that asks the question: "Is it ethical to perform life-prolonging procedures on a patient with alzheimer's disease that 1)has no guardian or family involved, 2) has not otherwise made their wishes known, and 3) is cognitively incapable of making wishes known now?" Note this is not a LEGAL question, or a financially founded question it is a question of ethics and what is right and what is wrong. what is cruel and what is humane? Is a G-Tube humane? Is starving to death humane? is a tracheostomy cruel or suffocating? Or a simpler one is DNR status. Is it cruel to fracture ribs while attempting to rescuscitate or is it cruel to let it be what it is, heart attack or stroke or whatever?
I am interested in any resource info that may deal with these questions as well as opinions based on reasoning and not just what the law says.
Thanks, Julianne
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